For more than 15 years, the Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center's Phyllis & Harvey Sandler Center in Boca Raton has conducted cultural missions to Cuba that have been considered "meaningful" and "rich."
However, due to the recent ease with which...

Cuba’s recently appointed President Miguel Díaz-Canel is expected to lead the island’s official delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations, which is scheduled to take place at the end of the month in New York.
The visit has not yet been...

Although the full text has not yet been released, the news from Cuba about a new constitution is tantalizing. The document could lead to laws that permit same-sex marriage and could permit owning private property. If true, this would mark a reversal...

As Victoria Burgess neared the end of a 90-mile stand-up paddleboard journey across the Florida Straits, she was jubilant while approaching Key West on Wednesday.
“I can’t wait to land, and get to Duval Street and go dancing!” she shouted to a...

“Did you see the war correspondent’s uniform?” a dazzled visitor asks a companion, as both peer at a musty closet housing vintage garb, much of it martial in nature.
“And the white shoes!” he adds, alluding to the jaunty footwear invoking Gatsby...

Former CIA operative and militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who was accused of organizing a string of 1997 Havana hotel bombings and a 1976 Cuban airline bombing that killed 73 people, has died. He was 90.
Posada, who had been diagnosed with...

A plane is reported to have crashed Friday while taking off from Cuba.
The Boeing 737 crashed while departing from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Newsweek is reporting.
The reports have yet to be confirmed but are spreading on social media....

Carnival Cruise Line plans to add 23 more cruises to Havana, Cuba, in 2019 and 2020, including the company’s first scheduled voyage to the island nation from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, the Doral-based company said.
The expanded offerings,...

This past week brought the end of the Castro era with the announcement of a new Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel. I, like many Cuba watchers, have lived through many moments in which the fall of the Castro regime seemed imminent. I remember one of those...

In the next few days, history will be made in Cuba. For the first time in almost 60 years, a Castro will not rule the island, as Fidel Castro's 86-year-old brother Raúl steps down as Cuba's head of state. While Fidel Castro's death in 2016 inspired...

HAVANA - Through the Space Age, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Internet era, Cubans held one constant: A Castro ruled the nation.
That is about to change.
Raúl Castro, 86, is expected to step aside as Cuba's president this week, ending the...